dead season. The first big politico! speech As regards polities we are still in the of the recess has not yet been delivered and will not be for another two or three weeks probably. But political writers are already beginning to speculate on the programme of the next parliamentary Session.
Redistribution Bill is, we are told, to be the principal measure.' Ireland, which is at present very largely over-represented, is to have twenty members: taken away from it and these twenty are to be added to the under-represented populous districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire. This is of course possible.#A measure of this sort will almost certainly be introduced before the present Parliament dies a natural death. But a Redistribution Bill most almost of necessity be followed closely by a General Election, for the Parliament which. passes it does not represent the nowly created or reorganised constituencies. 'The Government would be wiser therefore to postpone this measure till' the Session of 1900. At Darlington, where a by-election is infprogress in consequence of the death of Mr. Pease, the ritualism question is likely to be the leading factor. Public feeling runs very high on this question there, as. indeed it does in some measure, everywhere, It is probable that if the Liberationists" had their way and the Church were disestablished it would break up into two sections at once, so strong has the feeling between Low Churelt and High Church become.
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